Card-index system.



l. H. RAND,1R.

CARD INDEX SYSTEM.

APPLICATION HLED1UNE17-1914.

'Patented Jun 8. 1915.

card, whereby 4the -absengg of any card from its card-holder will expose v,tts @anderlying Signal- A card system comprising a ,series upstanding card-holders, supported at ,heir lower edges to .overlap each other and with their upper edges fait@ md exposed, and a series of cards removabltr lall by said cardholders one in front o another `their upper edges exposed, whereby ,absence ot' any @fail-d from its card-holder will visually indicated ,by the a1 sence of its up.- per edge from the series ,of exposed upper card edgcsf 4. A card system, comprising a frame having inwardly facing guide channels, and a series of card-holders each including means to support a removable card in up standing position, said supporting means being provided ivith a pair of rigiddaterally extending projections, adjustably mounted in said guide channels, said projections being relatively broad and fiat to prevent their turning in said guide channels, whereby said card supporting means and the/cards held thereby will be rigidly .Supported in the frame by said projections in uptallding position.

5. A card system, .comprising a frame having inwardly facing guide channels, and a series ot' card-holders each including means to support a removable card in upstanding position` a bar having relatively broad and flat ends projecting beyond each side of said card supporting means, to which bar said card supporting means is rigidly connected, said flat projecting ends of the bar being adiustably mountedin said guide channels and being adapted to prevent the bar from turning in said guide channels,

whereby said card supporting means and the cards held thereby will be rigidly supported in the frame in upstanding position.'

6.A. card system, comprising a series of card-holders made of flexible sheet material,

cach formed with slits'extending inwardV from one edge and dividing the card-holder into a central or body section and two-end tongues, and a series of cards removably supported within said slits ot the several card-holders, with said end tongues and body section alternately overlying and un- 8, A sys/tem, comprising a series of cardholders xojfflexible sheet material and provided withv @ard-@ngang tongues,-

a bar at the lower edge of each card-holder on which the card-holder is rigidly Supported, a series of Cards removably held by said card holders, the upper edges of the cards and of the body parts of the cardholders being substantially coterminous, and a .frame having inwardly facing guide channels adapted to engage the ends of said bars and support them one above another, and t) hold said card-holders in upstanding other.

9, In a card system, a card-holder com prisipg a body made of flexible sheet ma.- terial, and a relatively stit .harto which said body rigidiy secured, said body being pyovided with' slits extending inward from' t 1 e free edge toward the bar` and a card remos-ably supported in said. slits.

1.0. In a card system,'a card-.holder comprising 'a body'made of iiexible sheet material, and a relatively stiff bar t0 which said body is rigidly secured, said body being provided With a airof slits extending inward from the ii'ee edgetoward the bar and dividing the. card-holder into' a centralsection and two side tongues, said cenf tral section being of greater height than said. side tongues, andY a card removably supported in Said slits, 4

Signed by me at North '.Ioriawanda,v N Y., this 9th day of June, i914.v

. JAMES RAND, Jn. Witnesses:

EnwAnD W. MESSING, 'LAWRENCE H. (lasen.v

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